This Week’s Quote: “I condemn a Republican ‘Fascist’ just as much I condemn a Democratic ‘Communist.’ I condemn a Democratic ‘Fascist’ just as much as I condemn a Republican ‘Communist.’ They are equally dangerous to you and me and to our country.” —Margaret Chase Smith

This Week’s Quote: “I am in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.” —Milton Friedman

This Week’s Quote: “The answer to bad speech is not censorship. The answer to bad speech is more speech. We have to exercise and spread the idea that critical thinking matters now more than ever, given the fact that lies seem to be getting very popular.” —Edward Snowden

This Week’s Quote: “Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have…an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers.” —John Adams

This Week’s Quote: “My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow…I am convinced that free speech is worth nothing unless it includes a full franchise to be foolish and even to be malicious.” —H.L. Mencken

This Week’s Quote: “In the 1970’s and 1980’s vaccines became, one might say, victims of their own success. They had been so effective in preventing infectious diseases that the public became much less alarmed at the threat of those diseases, and much more concerned with the risk of injury from the vaccines themselves.” —Antonin Scalia

This Week’s Quote: “The core of racism is the notion that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective—the race—is the source of his identity and value. The notion of ‘diversity’ entails exactly the same premises as racism—that one’s ideas are determined by one’s race and that the source of an individual’s identity is his ethnic heritage.” —Peter Schwartz

This Week’s Quote: “It is rather strange that unless one has a criminal mind and no respect for other people and their property, no one claims it’s permissible to go into one’s neighbor’s house and tell them how to behave, what they can eat, smoke, and drink, or how to spend their money. Yet, rarely is it asked why it is morally acceptable that a stranger with a badge and a gun can do the same thing in the name of law and order.” —Ron Paul